 | George Campbell - 1841 - 416 pagina’s
...The advice of the poet with regard to both the before-mentioned sorts of barbarism is extremely good. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold : Alike...fantastic, if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new «re tri'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. f PART III. — By the use of good words nno-moddled.... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pagina’s
...antigos neste tempo, Faltar como fatiavam, vale o mesmo As apes our gnmdsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike...new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are try'd Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song; And smooth or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pagina’s
...— Warton. Ver. 328. Unlucky, as Fungoso, $c.] See Ben Jonson's Every Man out of his Humour. — P. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song, And smooth... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1847 - 490 pagina’s
...follow our own recommendation in ihn respect : In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, A like fantastic if too new or old . Be not the first by whom the new are tried, - or yet the laat to lay the old aside. — POPB. t Except in Greek and foreign-- words, as system,... | |
 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - 1848 - 300 pagina’s
...moral, sensible, and well-bred man will notaffrontme, and no other can." — cowper. " In words as in fashions, the same rule will hold, alike fantastic,...old ; Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside."— pope. PART II. ETYMOLOGY. When a scholar commences the study... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pagina’s
...yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough,... | |
 | George Campbell - 1849 - 472 pagina’s
...advice of the poet with regard to both the before-mentioned sorts of barbarism is extremely good. " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold —...old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."* PART III. By the Use of Good Words new-modelled. The third... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pagina’s
...moderns in their sense ; * • * * ' In words, as fashions, the same rnle will hold ; Alike fantastie, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Bnt most by nnmbers jndge a poet's song, And smooth or rongh,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 628 pagina’s
...yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancicnt wits at best, As apes ourgrandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...fantastic, if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new arc tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most hy numhers judge a poet's song; And... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pagina’s
...history. An obsolete word can be used in poetry when it can not be in prose. Pope's rule is a good one : " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...fantastic if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Ncr yet the last to lay the old aside." RULE IV. — When the usage is divided as to... | |
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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 
